That’s a question that has haunted humankind since we realized that points of light in the night sky were actually other suns.

Dr. H. Paul Shuch is a scientist, teacher and entertainer who takes a very complicated subject of radio astronomy and makes it as simple as….well as a song. In fact, Shuch brings a guitar as well as a laptop to his lecture on the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence on November 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Lycoming College. The talk is entitled "Sing a Song of SETI," and takes place in the Barclay Lecture Hall of the Heim Building.

Dr. Shuch has impressive credentials, including a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in engineering. An educator for over 30 years, Dr. Shuch is now the executive director of the SETI League, whose research was originally funded by NASA. The SETI League is a non-profit corporation of amateur and professional scientists founded to take over the research that was once funded by NASA. The League searches for intelligent life by monitoring radio waves. The members use radio telescopes to search the heavens in an organized fashion for evidence of technology "out there" and intelligent life.

"We figure that maybe someone else out there is polluting the universe with radio waves, like we are," Dr. Shuch explains

"Sing a Song of SETI" is the final presentation in a semester-long symposium on "SPACE—A Revolution in Perspective. The lecture will end a demonstration of the College’s own new radio telescope by Dr. David Wolfe.

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